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Kes (1970)

Kes (1970)

Drama

They beat him. They deprived him. They ridiculed him. They broke his heart. But they couldn’t break his spirit.

Release Date: 1970, April 3
Directors: Ken Loach
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Woodfall Film Productions, Woodfall Film Productions, Kestrel Films, Kestrel Films
Cast: David Bradley, Brian Glover, Robert Naylor, David Glover, Bill Dean, Joe Miller, Colin Welland, Duggie Brown, Geoffrey Banks, Bernard Atha, Lynne Perrie, Freddie Fletcher

Overview:

Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence.

Keywords:

based on novel or book coming of age sibling relationship brother brother relationship england bird sibling rivalry working class teenage boy single parent single mother small town dysfunctional family childhood united kingdom great britain neglected child northern england yorkshire falcon bleak falconry mining town kitchen sink realism kestrel newspaper boy